Bronze vessels like this one are among the most iconic objects made in ancient China. They often carry inscriptions ... for alcohol, for water, and used these in a big ceremony, sometimes once ...

The vessel, which dates back to the Shang dynasty, contained a liquid that (upon analysis) was revealed to be distilled liquor. This discovery suggests that the history of Chinese distilled liquor ...

Bronze vessels like this one are among the most iconic objects made in ancient China. They often carry inscriptions ... for alcohol, for water, and used these in a big ceremony, sometimes once ...

The Chinese government demanded the sale of the rare water vessel should not go ahead A rare sacred Chinese bronze water vessel made between 2,200 and 3,600 years ago has been sold despite ...

(photo credit: The Archaeology Institute of Jinan City) In a discovery that could rewrite the history of alcohol production in China, archaeologists found a bronze vessel containing distilled ...

Fourteen years after archaeologists unearthed it and more than 3,000 years after it was initially buried, a bronze vessel found inside an ancient Chinese tomb has finally been opened. In late 2024, ...